Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Western media are declaring the million-man march in Paris, where
world leaders paraded down Boulevard Voltaire in solidarity with France,
a victory over terrorism.

Isn’t it pretty to think so.

Unfortunately, the massacre at Charlie Hebdo, its military-style
execution, the escape of the assassins, and their blazing end in a
shootout Friday was a triumph of terrorism not seen since 9/11.

Unlike the Boston Marathon bombing where the Tsarnaevs did not know
or care whom they maimed or killed, the attack on Charlie Hebdo by the
Kouachi brothers was purposeful and targeted terrorism.
And like a flash of lightning in the dark, it exposed the moral contradictions and confusion of the West.

During the slaughter the Kouachis shouted “Allahu akbar,” said they had “avenged the Prophet,” and spoke of ties to al-Qaida.

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12 gauge 2-3/4" Hogs Breath.
Similar to Dragons Breath only there is some bacon grease in the load of magnesium which will give the smell of burnt bacon.
If the Jihad Terrorist come around you can give them a load of burning pork!

Putin is still playing chess while Obama and the EU are struggling with checkers. :) Beautifully played.

"I will see you proxy/currency war and raise you an European energy crisis. Come get you're gas bitchez!"

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Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian state energy giant Gazprom to cut supplies to and through Ukraine amid accusations, according to The Daily Mail, that its neighbor has been siphoning off and stealing Russian gas. Due to these "transit risks for European consumers in the territory of Ukraine,"
Gazprom cut gas exports to Europe by 60%, plunging the continent into
an energy crisis "within hours." Perhaps explaining the explosion higher
in NatGas prices (and oil) today, gas companies in Ukraine confirmed
that Russia had cut off supply; and six countries reported a complete shut-off of Russian gas.

The high-tech industry, like Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us lobbying
group, has pushed for massive increases in guest-worker permits even
though companies like Microsoft have been laying of thousands of U.S.
tech workers. As Breitbart News has documented,
“despite evidence to the contrary, the tech industry has spent millions
trying to get massive increases in the number of H-1b guest-worker
visas, claiming that they ‘can’t find’ Americans to do various tech
jobs” even though there is a proven surplus of America high-tech
workers.

An Ohio bartender was indicted on Jan. 7 in a bizarre plot to put poison in House Speaker John
Boehner’s drink.

WCPO in Cincinnati, Ohio, reported Tuesday that the bartender, 44-year old Michael Robert Hoyt, was brought up on charges of threatening to murder Boehner.

Hoyt, according to the news site,
served drinks to Boehner for more than five years at the Wetherington
Country Club in West Chester, where we went by the nickname “Bartender
Mike.” Court documents cited by WCPO paint Hoyt as mentally unstable.

U.S. officials have arrested an Ohio man in connection with a plan to
attack the Capitol building in Washington, D.C, CBS News confirms.

Christopher
Lee Cornell -- also known as Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah -- was arrested by
the FBI for the attempted killing of a U.S. government officer and for
possession of a firearm in furtherance of attempted crime of violence.

The
apparently ISIS-inspired plot, which included guns and bombs, was
stopped very early in its formation. In the wake of the terror attack
against a satirical newspaper in Paris, the U.S. has reaffirmed its
commitment to preventing individuals from being radicalized by extremist
groups like ISIS.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Yahoo News sourced their version of this article to the New Straits Times Online. So I went to this website and found the original article and it turns out Yahoo News left something very important out:

Analysing the recording while listening to their final
words like “Allahuakhbar” repeatedly, give the investigators goose
bumps, Nurcahyo said.

“It is as if we can feel them… Allahuakhbar, Allahuakhbar were the last words said before they died,” he said referring to his experience analising black boxes from past crashes.

The phrase “he said referring to his experience analising black boxes from past crashes”
was completely left out of the Yahoo News story even though the story
is almost identical word for word.

Why they would omit such a crucial
detail, I’m really not sure. But I certainly can’t do that which is why
I’m bringing it to your attention.

There is quite a buzz surrounding an open letter from a retired FBI agent to Attorney General Eric Holder. So much so that Snopes looked into it and confirms that it is indeed from retired FBI Special Agent K. Dee McCown, currently Director, Global Security and Loss Prevention at W.W. Grainger, Inc.

The
criticisms of the AG will sound familiar to many readers of AT, but
coming from someone who rose to the rank of Special Agent, they carry
weight.

It
is unlikely that we met while I served in the FBI. That being said, we
served at the Department of Justice (DOJ) during the same years and on
the same “team” conceptually speaking. During my service in the FBI I
worked with a number of U.S. Attorney Offices in the United States to
include a tour at FBIHQ where I worked with the Department of Justice
(Main) on a daily basis.

This part almost writes itself. It's a recipe for disaster, so I'll write it out as a recipe.

1.
Take a nation of people who respond to offense by damning you to hell,
and refusing to having anything more to do with you, rather than
fighting. Make sure that this is a nation whose natural
resources are essential for keeping your lights on and your houses
heated, for making your passenger airliners and your jet fighters, and
for a great many other things. Keep in mind, a quarter of the light
bulbs in the US light up thanks to Russian nuclear fuel, whereas a
cut-off of Russian gas to Europe would be a cataclysm of the first
order.

2. Make them feel that they are being invaded by installing a
government that is hostile to them in a territory that they consider
part of their historical homeland. The only truly non-Russian
part of the Ukraine is Galicia, which parted company many centuries ago
and which, most Russians will tell you, “You can take to hell with you.”
If you like your neo-Nazis, you can keep your neo-Nazis. Also keep in
mind how the Russians deal with invaders: they freeze them out.

3. Impose economic and financial sanctions on Russia. Watch
in dismay as your exporters start losing money when in instant
retaliation Russia blocks your agricultural exports. Keep in
mind that this is a country that, thanks to surviving a long string of
invasion attempts, traditionally relies on potentially hostile foreign
states to finance its defense against them. If they fail to do so, then
it will resort to other ways of deterring them, such as freezing them
out. “No gas for NATO members” seems like a catchy slogan. Hope and pray
that it doesn't catch on in Moscow.

4. Mount an attack on their national currency, causing it to
lose part of its value on par with a lower price of oil. Watch in dismay
as Russian officials laugh all the way to the central bank because the
lower ruble has caused state revenues to remain unchanged in spite of
lower oil prices, erasing a potential budget deficit. Watch in
dismay as your exporters go bankrupt because their exports are priced
out of the Russian market. Keep in mind, Russia has no national debt to
speak of, runs a negligible budget deficit, has plentiful foreign
currency reserves and ample gold reserves. Also keep in mind that your
banks have loaned hundreds of billions of dollars to Russian businesses
(which you have just deprived of access to your banking system by
imposing sanctions). Hope and pray that Russia doesn't put a freeze on
debt repayments to western banks until the sanctions are lifted, since
that would blow up your banks.

5. Watch in dismay as Russia signs major natural gas export deals with everyone except you.
Is there going to be enough gas left for you when they are done? Well,
it appears that this no longer a concern for the Russians, because you
have offended them, and, being who they are, they told you to go to hell
(don't forget to take Galicia with you) and will now deal with other,
friendlier countries.

6. Continue to watch in dismay as Russia actively looks for ways to sever most of the trade links with you, finding suppliers in other parts of the world or organizing production for import replacement.

The
French authorities moved on Wednesday to reinforce a clampdown on hate
speech and anti-Semitism, as the weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo returned
defiantly to the newsstands with a depiction of the Prophet Muhammad on
its cover, just one week after Islamist gunmen slaughtered 12 people in
an attack on its offices.

In
some places, vendors reported that their allotment of the publication
had sold out before daybreak, and demand was so intense that copies of
the newspaper were being offered on eBay for hundreds of dollars. Some
vendors drew up waiting lists of customers in anticipation of new
supplies for a print run that could reach five million, compared with
60,000 before the attacks.

As the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals considers whether to
strike down laws in three states banning same-sex “marriage,” four adult
children of homosexual parents have filed court briefings arguing that
government-sanctioned homosexual unions could lead to disaster for
thousands of kids.

Katy Faust, Dawn Stefanowicz, B.N. Klein, and Robert Oscar Lopez, who
were all raised by homosexual parents, each submitted briefs to the 5th
Circuit opposing the legalization of same-sex “marriage.” Recounting
childhood memories of households made deeply dysfunctional by their
parents’ sexual appetites and the radical subculture that went along
with their “gay” identities, all four argued that redefining marriage to
include homosexual couples will likely lead to the exploitation and
abuse of countless children for political and personal gain.

I’m still trying to figure out why Obama — or any high-level
U. S. government official other than Eric Holder, who was in Paris but
evidently had better things to do — didn’t join the nearly 4 million
people who marched throughout France protesting the terror killings at
#CharlieHebdo and the Hyper Cacher market. White House press
secretary Josh Earnest has admitted
the mistake and apologized (perhaps a little wishy-washily, but we’ll
give him a pass), informing us that, unfortunately, there just wasn’t
enough time to arrange presidential security for the trip.

That’s interesting. Somehow there was time for security for 40 or so
other world leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel
(arguably the most highly regarded politician on the planet at the
moment and the de facto president of the EU), the UK’s David
Cameron, Spain’s Mariano Rajoy and even Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu
(probably a considerably bigger target than Obama these days and not
exactly welcomed by France’s President Hollande, if reports are correct).
Of course, the “American president” is supposedly more important but —
correct me if I’m wrong — Obama was not originally so gung-ho on American exceptionalism,
equating it with British exceptionalism and Greek exceptionalism, etc., etc. All countries, after all, feel they are exceptional.

The rise of so-called "no-go zones" in France — segregated Muslim
communities governed by local imams and abandoned by French police — are
the handiwork of Islamists who plan to spread them throughout the
non-Muslim West, a former New York City police detective told Newsmax TV on Tuesday.

"I think this is actually a strategy that is slowly being implemented
worldwide by radical Islam," Harry Houck, a private investigator and
retired NYPD detective, told "The Steve Malzberg Show," describing a
process of gradual takeover that he said is key to the Islamists' dream
of world dominion.

How long would the jihadis at Charlie Hebdo, Westgate, Mumbai
– and many other terror attacks to come – be able to continue killing
if they were surrounded by armed citizens? Interpol states that the only
way to stop such attacks is to allow citizens to carry arms (the only
alternative to an armed citizenry is “extraordinary security”
surrounding every area where many people meet – train stations, super
markets, schools, etc. – which is of course completely unrealistic).

If
guns are illegal, only violent criminals, fanatic jihadis and our
over-worked, understaffed police will have them.

In case you are unsure whether it is a good idea that citizens legally own firearms: Switzerland has very liberal gun laws
and one of the lowest percentages of homicide in the world. Interesting
statistics on guns, homicides and firearm related accidents in the US here.

Colorado baker Jack Phillips
was found guilty of discrimination for refusing to prepare a wedding
cake for a same-sex couple, but his attorneys said Monday that a state
official who ruled against him is guilty of anti-religious bias.

In 2012 Mr. Phillips
declined to bake and decorate a wedding cake for a same-sex couple,
saying that his Christian faith prevented him from doing so. He offered
to make them any other kind of cake, but the two men filed a complaint
against him with the commission.

Remembrance

Winners: Navy Cross Nguyen Van Kiet & MOH Thomas R. Norris This week’s Medal of Honor hero is one of a handful of Navy SEALs awarded the MOH in the Vietnam War. Norris snuck behind enemy lines with a South Vietnamese Navy petty officer rescued two downed pilots in 1972–when most of our resources had been pulled from the country. Interesting to note that later year, Norris was himself rescued by another SEAL Michael E. Thornton.More @ Medal of Honor Roll Call

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.